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The Tomahawk: A Saturday Journal Of Sati...

No. 35] London, January 4, 1868. [Price ...

No . 35 ] LONDON , JANUARY 4 , 1868 . [ Price Twopence .

To My Fenia1st Friend !

TO MY FENIA 1 ST FRIEND !

Is It A Useless Task To Preach To Madmen...

Is it a useless task to preach to madmen ? If not—listen to me . Oh thou representative of a miserable rabble of patriotic shoemakers and public-spirited scavengers open wide your Irish ears ( they are long enough by all conscience ) , and drink in a

little reason . I don ' t expect you will , because I know you to be a dolt , an idiot , —a mischievous maniac . I ' m not going to mount upon stilts , for eloquence would be lost upon you , nor am I going to take any particular trouble about my style , because I know my audience , I know you to be either a fool or

a knave , or perchance , both . Anything in the absence of the hangman's rope will be good enough for you . No , listen to me as you would at one time have heark ened to your parish priest , to Father O'Toole , or the Reverend Patrick O'Flannagan . Why are you not near them now ? You hang down your head , " You

don ' t know . " But I do I You daren't go near them ! If you appeared in their churches they would send you away unabsolved from the Confessional , unblessed from the rails of the altar ! Why ? Simply because you are accursed ! You know it full well .

You are unclean , accursed , condemned to perdition . These are not my words , they form but the sentence pronounced by your own people , by your own Church . There is not a priest in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that would give you absolution were you , yes , on your death- bed . In the sight

of the Pope andthe " Holy Roman Catholic Church " you rank with those gallant soldiers , the Garibaldians , with those noble patriots , the members of the secret societies of Italy . In the name of all you hold sacred be accursed . Mark me well , I reiterate what has already been said before by your prelates .

Be accursed , be accursed I Now I don ' t expect you will answer me logically . Supposing that you find out my name , and it turns out to be something different from Tomahawk , I don ' t expect any fair fighting or discussion . No , you are far too great a coward to meet me

face to face . However , if you are very brave you will set my house on fire , if you are very tipsy you will do your best to shoot at me from the friendly shelter of a lamp-post . My sweet traitor , my charming ragamuffin , I know you to be an arrant coward , a blustering bully . You have quite enough pluck to murder a

woman in cold blood , but you are not the man I take you to be if you don ' t turn very very pale when Calcraft gets at your neck at Newgale ! And you pretend to be an Irishman ! * he An world Irishman has 1 ever A countryman seen . A countryman of some of of the heroic greatest warriors men ,

Is It A Useless Task To Preach To Madmen...

skilful statesmenlearned scholars . A countryman of dear kind , hearted Pat , with his ready wit and genial smile . Why I'm proud of my Irish fellow-countrymen , and what do you imagine I think of you ?

Why , I know you to be a wretched mean-spirited cur . A traitor by chance , a murderer by choice , an informer by profession ! Away with you , don ' t disgrace poor old Ireland by claiming her as your mother . The cause of justice is lost by such as you . Back , hound , back to your kennel beyond the seas ! Tomahawk . \ st January , 1868 .

Views About A Site.

VIEWS ABOUT A SITE .

Question The Disastrous If A Play-House ...

question The disastrous if a play-house fire should in the again Haymarket occupy the has spot opened on which the Her Majesty ' s Theatre once stood , or whether the vacant space which pose could . not have We be subjoin poured made a more in few upon profitabl of the the more noble e use important of landlord for some for app other the lications utili pur - - zation The of Board the ground of Works : — propose that the property should be handed over to the Crown with a view to the erection of a

Central Post Office and Government Savings' Bank . verted Viscount into a Ranelagh monster drill considers -shed for that the the use space of the should Metropolitan be con-Volunteers in wet weather . be The formed Earl of under Shaftesbury the title is of of op the inion " London that a company Consolidated might should Cathedral erect and a Popular suitable Preaching edifice to be Company let to , ministers Limited , " of who all

shamble A Gentleman should be Residing built on at which Richmond all beasts thinks broug that a ht huge into London The Hon should . Miss be slaughtered Carlton . Terracesays that space must Mr . be Cole levelled , C . B and ., claims prettil , y that laid the out as valuable a Croquet , site Ground should . be removed Tomahawk to South would Kensington wish to see . the finest theatre in the world rise and from its late the director ashes of the laced largest m a p position lay-house to but renew two in the Europe good , service he has alread p y rendered to music in England .